Research

Books

Letitia Meynell and Clarisse Paron. Applied Ethics Primer. (Broadview 2023 and Dalhousie University OER, 2021). (OER) (Hard copy publisher's webpage). 

Kristin Andrews, Gary Comstock, G.K.D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler M. John, L. Syd M Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Peña-Guzmán and Jeffrey Sebo. Chimpanzee Rights—The Philosophers Brief. London: Routledge, 2019.  (Publisher's webpage) (Archive webpage).

Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell and James Robert Brown, eds. Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy and the Arts (Routledge, 2012). (Publisher's webpage) (Google Books).

Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell and Susan Sherwin, eds. Embodiment and Agency, (Penn State, 2009). (Publisher's webpage) (Google Books).


Selected Papers

Feminist Philosophy of Biology (with Carla Fehr), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2024).

Scaffolds and Scaffolding: An Explanatory Strategy in Evolutionary Biology” (with Celso Alves Neto and Christopher Jones),  Biology and Philosophy 38: 8 (2023). 

"Gendering Animals" (with Andrew Lopez), Synthese 199,  4287–4311 .

Getting the Picture: A New Account of Scientific Understanding,” The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding, eds. Steven French and Milena Ivanova. London: Routledge, 2020, 36-62. 

Picturing Feynman Diagrams and the Epistemology of Understanding,” Perspectives on Science 26 (4) 2018, 459-81.

"On Political Correctness," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56 (4) 2017, 799-804.

Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments,” The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, eds. Mike Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown. London: Routledge, 2018, 498-511.

"The Logical Project,"  (co-authored with Richmond Campbell), in “Shut up,” he explained. Essays in Honour of Peter K. Schotch, ed. Gillman Payette. London: College Publications, 2016, 41-61.

"See What I Mean? On Developing Norms for the Production and Publication of Scientific Images," in Narratives of Science and Nature, eds. Gordon McOuat, Sundar Sarukkai and Jobin Kanjirakkat (Delhi: Routledge, 2015), 239-260.

"Imagination and Insight: A New Account of the Content of Thought Experiments," Synthese 191 (17) 2014, 4149-68.

"Parsing Pictures: On Analyzing the Content of Images in Science," Knowledge Engineering Review 28 (3) 2013, special issue on Visualization, Visual Representation and Reasoning, 327-45.

"Evolutionary Psychology, Ethology, and Essentialism (Because What They Don't Know Can Hurt Us)," Hypatia 27 (1) 2012, 3-27.

"The Politics of Pictured Reality: Locating the Object from Nowhere in fMRI," in Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience, Robyn Bluhm, Heidi Maibom and Anne Jaap Jacobson, eds (Palgrave, 2012), 11-29.

"Why Feynman Diagrams Represent," International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (1) 2008, 39-59.

"Pictures, Pluralism and Feminist Epistemology: Lessons from 'Coming to Understand'," Hypatia 23 (4) 2008, 1-29.